Mysticism, Death and Dying

This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it affirms the reality but not the finality of death. If what the generations have called the mystery of death is "the last enemy," a still more mysterious mysticism would anticipate, illuminate and disarm it, issuing in what "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard." This work is contemporary in that it represents a creative and original appropriation of tradition, is spiritually more mystical than devotional-and is ecumenically conversant with and sensitive to the great religious traditions.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Christopher Nugent is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Colloquy of Poissy: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Ecumenism, and Masks of Satan: The Demonic in History.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christopher Nugent
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.10.1994
• EAN: 9780791422052
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2205-2
• Seiten: 142
• Gewicht: 354 g
• Serien: Suny Series the New Inequaliti; Suny Series the New Inequaliti; Suny Western Esoteric Traditio
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke